Sentence example with the word 'tightening'

tightening

accelerando, blowup, condensation, deepening, explosion, incremental, magnification, pinch, redoubling, squeeze, tweak

Definition n. the act of making something tighter

Last update: September 3, 2015


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He flinched visibly as if she had slapped him, his fingers tightening on her arm.   [Please select]

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The Cossacks were untying their horses and tightening their saddle girths.   [Please select]

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It was like bygone years of another life to appear in defence when the law was tightening round a victim.   [Please select]

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"It can't be any too hard," answered the man with a grim tightening of the muscles around his mouth.   [Please select]

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Dick, all unconscious of distant opinion, watched the tightening of the steel belt, and helped in the task.   [Please select]

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Madden had looked forward with a certain grim tightening of her combative jaws to the home-coming of the "red-head."   [Please select]

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"Thank you, sir," said Jack, with a tightening around his heart.   [Please select]

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